Google AdWords

Last updated August 06, 2018 22:22

Google AdWords is an advertising software that allows you to reach new audiences with targeting, bidding, keywords and also create and manage advertising campaigns that feature the products you have uploaded to your Google Merchant Center account.

If you don’t have an AdWords account, you can click Create account in the Google Merchant Center account.

Set up AdWords conversion tracking

If you'd like to measure the conversion from your ads, you need to integrate your Google AdWords account with Ecwid by creating a conversion action in AdWords and adding the tracking code into your Ecwid store.

Create AdWords conversion action

Choose Purchase/Sale for the Category of conversion you want to track:

Choose Use different values for each conversion for the Value:

Choose Every for the Count:

Set up the Conversion window (how long to track conversions after an ad click) and View-through conversion window (how long to track conversions that happen after an impression of, not an interaction with, your ad).

Check the option Include in "Conversions" if you want to include in your "Conversions" and "Conversion value" columns. If you uncheck it, data will still appear in the "All conv." column.

Click Create and Continue.

Now you can proceed to setting up your conversion tag.

Set up AdWords conversion tag

Select Install the tag yourself.

Choose I haven’t installed the global site tag on my website if it’s your first time setting up the tag for a conversion action and you haven’t installed the global site tag from another Google product.

Click Download snippet in the Global site tag block.

Choose Page load for the Event snippet.

Copy the Event snippet and open the text file with the Global site tag you have just downloaded.

Paste the event snippet right after the Global site tag in the text file.

Edit the parameter 'value': 1.0' in the event snippet to 'value': '%order_total%'. The %order_total% variable will pass the order-specific value to the tracking code.

Edit the parameter 'transaction_id' in the event snippet to 'transaction_id': '%order_id%'. The %order_id% variable will pass the order-specific value to the tracking code.